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EPISODE 2 Bite: What America Could Taste Like

Aired: Friday, December 19th 2014

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We promised we’d serve a bite-sized snack in between our full-length episodes, and here it isâ€”a short and snappy update, in which we share two of the most interesting food history and science stories we’ve come across recently.

This week is all about the ignored, overlooked, and (maybe) future foods and flavors of America. We’ll introduce you to the scientists using DNA sequencing to help them perform the very ancient human activity of crop domestication, and to a writer fighting to save Alaska’s most abundant and sustainable fishery. By the end of our conversation, we expect you’ll want to swap that all-American burger and fries for some wild salmon and mashed potato beans. (Don’t worry, you can still have a chocolate-chip cookie for dessertâ€”in fact, it will be the ur-chocolate-chip cookie.)